Four injured in school hammer attack in Russia

MOSCOW: A teenage student wounded four people with a hammer on Monday at a school in the southern Russian city of Chelyabinsk, near the border with Kazakhstan, local authorities said.

The 13-year-old boy attacked teachers and fellow students before he was stopped, province governor Aleksey Teksler wrote on X. Two 13-year-old girls, one boy and a teacher were injured and admitted to hospital, the local health ministry said.

The suspect was also carrying a knife and a gun, according to a police source cited by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. His motives were not immediately clear. “How could a student get into the school with a hammer and why didn´t security guards respond?” Teksler asked on X. He said he had ordered security protocols to be reviewed at every school in the region.